Roll-paper holder and cutter



(No Model.)

G. WINHEIM.

ROLL PAPER HOLDER AND GUTTER.

Patented Feb. Z LYlQ M l||| I Illlilllllmm.

I N VENTO R I By lad .lttorneg N. PETKRS, PholoLflhogriphur. Washmginh. 11c.

lJNlTED STATES PATENT OFFICE,

GUSTAV WINHEIM, OF CARLYLE, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO ABBOTT Q. ROSS,

- OF CINCINNATI, OHIO.

ROLL-PAPER HOLDER AND CUTTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 398,762, dated February 26, 1889. Application filed July 31, 1888. Serial No. 281,578- (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.- ceive any desired nuinberof rolls. In each of Be it known that I, GUSTAV VINHEIM, a the uprights a is cut an inclined groove, a, citizen of the United States, residing at Carwhich is designed to receive the end of abet-13b, lyle, in the county of Clinton and State of passing through the roll and supporting the 5 5 Illinois, have invented certain new and useful same, the bearing in the groove being of such Improvements in Roll-Paper Holders and form as to allow the bar, and consequently Cutters; and I do hereby declare the f0llowthe roll placed on it, to revolve freely. In the ing to be a full, clear, and exact description center of each of the uprights CLIS an elongated of the invention, such as will enable others groove, (1, and in this is inserted the reduced IO skilled in the art to which it appertains to end 0 of the paper-cutter C.

make and use the same. The paper-cutter C is of metal or of some This invention relates to wrapping-paper other suitable material, weighted, and is as holders, and particularly to thekind in which large as it can conveniently be, in order to a roll of paper is held in a standard or frame have as much weight as may be required to r 5 in such manner that it is capable of turning hold it upon the roll B, upon which it bears. therein to deliver the paper, and in which a The lower face of the paper-cutter is preferpaper-cutter rests on the roll to facilitate sevl ably channeled, as shown, to form sharp ering pieces from the roll. edges 1), which are always in contact with The object of the present invention is to the roll and serve cutters when the paper 2o produce a paper holder and cutter in which l is drawn against it for the purpose of tearing the cutter proper is so arranged as to bear l off a piece. constantly on the roll of paper by its own i As the paper is used and the roll diminweight, and which is so constructed that the ishes in size, the paper-cutter will fall by its paper may be arranged to be drawn from i own weightandbe constantlyin contact with 7 either side of the device, as desired. the surface of the roll and always ready for \Vith these objects in view my invention i use. consists, essentially, in a roll-paper holder i The advantage of a holder in which a cutl and cutter comprising a frame of a paperter having the springs is dispensed with and stand provided above the roll with vertical the weighted cutter substituted therefor will o grooves or ways, and a papercutter, preferbe clear at once, as by the improved frame ably of metal, mounted in slides and havin adjustment of the parts to compensate for the its lowersurfacebearingdirectlyon the paper, I change in the size of the roll is avoided, the thebearingsurface being preferably concave, cost of the device materially lessened, and the to present the cutting-edges at each side. holder is rendered much more commodiousin 3 5 I have illustrated the invention in the acuse.

companying drawings, in whichi I am aware that heretofore there has been Figure 1 1s a perspective new of a papercombined with a paper roll a gravitating cutholder made in accordance with my inven- I tor-bar having guides arranged at an angle to 7 tion, the roll and paper-cutter being shown in the plane in which the cutter-bar presses upon no proper operative position. Fig. 2 is a side I the roll, instead of in a plane parallel to said elevation of the device, one side being broken 1 plane of pressure; but such prior construcaway and theroll being shown in dotted. lines; 1 tion is faulty, in that where an irregularly and Fig. 3 is a sectional view of one of the 5 shaped roll that is to say, a roll slightly flatstandards. tened or elliptical in contour-is employed 5 45 In the drawings, A represents a base, to l (and a truly cylindrical roll can seldom be which are attached the uprights o a, supportfound on the market) there is a binding of ing the roll and paper-cutter and formingthe the cutter-bar in the guides whenever the roll v frame of the device. is attempted to be rotated, hen the cut- I have in the present case shown a holder 3 tor-bar bears in a plane parallel to the plane I00 50 designed to receive three rolls of paper. Obof the guides, however, as in my invention, viously, the frames may be constructed to rethis tendency to bind does not exist and the cutter-bar rides freely up and down Whether the roll be true or elliptical.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by 5 Letters Patent,isv 1. In a paper holder and cutter, the combination, With the roll of paper, of a Weighted bar having a cutting edge or edges pressed by gravity against the periphery of said roll, IO and guides for the cutter-bar arranged in planes substantially parallel to the plane in which the cutter-bar presses against the roll, whereby binding of the cutter-bar is prevented during its up and down movements, 

